Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-02
NEWS.
A New York Registry Clerk Detected
in Stealing $4,000.
GARTER HARRISON HAS NOT MADE up HIS
MIND YET.
Lawyer Kisane Wants IN Old Indictment
Prosecuted.
TwEHrY.foUR INDICTMENTS FOUND FOR
DEFRAupIxs COOK COUNTY.
Cooley Elected Chairman Ct the Inter
state Commission.
ESPECIAL TO TIL SENTINEL
A Dishonest POstOfhfce Clerk.

NEW lORk, ApTll l.-he al carly
hour Wednesday morning, the Super
intendent Of the pouch-room registry
division of the New York Postofice,
| was startled at the discovery that a
package which had arrived late on
Tuesday night, in a pouch from Port
land, Oregon, containing $4,000 in
currency, was missing. He had
| checked the package off some time be-
fore, and could not imagine where it
could have gone to, as no n was in
the office except the clerks, $50 in
number. The superintendent tele-
graphed for Inspector Dosser, and de-
tanned the clerks until Dosser arrived.
Dosser took the clerks into his office,
and as his subordinates were away, he
sent for George F. Bangs, of the
Pinkerton Agency, to come and help
him. The clerks were examined one
at a time, and the examination con-
tinued all day, through the night, and
until early this morning. Suspicion
pointed in the direction of VIM. A.
Clarke, a clerk who has been in the
department for about five years. He
was examined last. For a long time
there have been robberies in the de-
partment. and over sixty packages and
letters have been stolen, the Inspectors
being unable to entrap the thief.
Clarke is a married man and lives in
BROOKLYN. He was accused of steal
ing several of these packages, but he
stoutly denied his guilt. At noon to-
day Inspector Adsit made another
search OF the Register Office, and found
a package secreted beneath some rub
bish in the bottom closet. 1t was
from the First National Bank of Port
land, Oregon, and was addressed to
the Chemical National Bank, this
city. 1t was delivered at the bank Of
fee, and the contents found intact.
The inspectors had Clarke locked up
in a room with them, and told him the
package had been found, and that
they had enough evidence to convict
him of the theft. Even then Clarke
would not acknowledge that he had
taken it. Finally, in the afternoon,
he called Inspector Dosser to him and
told him he had stolen the package,
and that he had also stolen the other
go packages that had been missing
from time to time for the past three
years. He said he had committed the
theft to pay his debts. He was adj
dicted to drinking, and had gambled
some. He could not say how much
he had stolen, but it is supposed he
has taken between "a, 900 and 5000.
Clarke. after he made the confession,
was taken to Ludlow street jail. He
will have an examination tomorrow
before the United States Commits
sioner.
LATER-W. A. Clarke, the Register
Clerk who is accused of stealing a
package OF $4,000 in bills from a
mail pouch in the New York Post
office, sent from the National Bank
of Portland, Or, to the Chemical
National Bank of N. Y, was arraigned
to-day before United States Commits
stones Griffith. The wife of the ac-
cused brought some friends to go bail,
but when they heard the charge they
refused to sign the bond. Clark
waived an examination and was COM
mitted for trial.
An Indictment Against Lawyer
Kisane.
New YORK, April 1. - Recorder
Smith, in the General Sessions to-
day, heard the argument by counsel j.
B. Hart, of San Francisco, to have a
prosequi entered onthe indictment for
forgery, on file in the District Attor-
ney's office, against William Kisane,
now a wealthy and influential citizen
of San Francisco. The indictment
was for the forgery of a check of $12-,
900, in 1854, against the Chemical
Bank of this city. Counselor Jones
appeared for the bank, and opposed
the motion. He said Kisane had not
made any restitution to the bank for
the money thus obtained in a criminal
manner, although it appeared that he
was a well-to-dO lawyer. Jones sub
mitted the affidavit made by the
cashier of the bank, which set forth
that the bank had suffered a loss of
$26, 900 by Kisane's forgery. District
| Attorney MARITIME was present and
favored Diminishing the indictment, |
considering the length of time that
had elapsed, and that Kisane had re-
formed and was leading an honest
life. Everything considered, he was
not disposed to call the cast for trial
at this late day. Recorder Smith was
not willing to dismiss the matter. He
said that there was no evidence that
lawyer Hart was acting with Kisane's
conset, and intimated that he would
require assurances on this point before
taking action. A telegram from the
principal in this Ease would not he
sufficient. The parties then left the
court.
Death OF the Poet SAKE.